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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?
(a) Helped them become traders.
(b) Destroyed their culture.
(c) Helped them become farmers.
(d) Committed genocide.

2. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?
(a) Kindergarten.
(b) First grade.
(c) At age 12.
(d) At age 10.

3. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Football.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Soccer.

4. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?
(a) The release of Sakharov.
(b) Metal workers went on strike.
(c) Fall of the Berlin Wall.
(d) Chernobyl.

5. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?
(a) Execution of Party leaders.
(b) Intervention from the West.
(c) Stubornness.
(d) Violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?

2. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?

3. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?

4. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?

5. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?

(see the answer key)

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